GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that the creator of Napster, Shawn Fanning, has completed his new legitimate music service software, dubbed Snowcap. With it's content filtering system and copyright tracking, the program touts itself as being capable of becoming one of the cleanest and largest platforms for obtaining music. Featuring reduced risk of downloading unwanted spyware, viruses or other destructive mechanisms and the program will also remove any illegal or spoofed files.
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The idea is that this centralised system will act as licensing manager, ensuring only licensed content is shared or downloaded, and recording for royalty purposes what tracks are copied. Music retailers can offer vast catalogues of music to customers who want to buy music on a track-by-track basis or to those who want monthly "all you can eat" subscriptions. Ditto P2P networks who want to maintain volume content availability to users, but want to ensure they"re operating in harmony with the music industry. The latter can sit safe in the knowledge that all this movement of content is generating revenue, and that they can set usage rights. |
Please visit the Register if you are interested in a download service that has the potential to offer music or content that is not avaialable on any other (legal) P2P networks. You can also read more about SNOCAP on the website.
Of course feel free to discuss this or any P2P software in our Music Downloads, P2P & Legal Issues Forum.
Source: The Register
